I submitted my first ASIC designs to the free Google shuttle in December of 2020. In October 2021, we heard there were serious clock related problems with the management area of the chip due to issues with the toolchain. It seemed unlikely that anyone would be able to get anything beyond a single blinking LED from MPW1. The hold violations in the management system meant that the PicoRV32 cpu couldn’t run and setup the GPIOs.| Zero to ASIC Course